Why do vehicles appear on both sides?

This is intra-industry trade between two assembly bases: Brazil sold US$ 290.4 million in motor cars and bought US$ 594.8 million of the same chapter; in goods vehicles it sold US$ 304.5 million and bought US$ 227.3 million. Each country concentrates different models and sizes within one chain.

Brazil × Mexico January–August 2026 — Foreign trade

Mexico

What Brazil sold to and bought from Mexico in January–August 2026: exports, imports, trade balance and the most traded HS4 chapters.

Brazil ran a US$ 503.4 million trade surplus with Mexico in January–July 2026, exporting US$ 4.86 billion against US$ 4.36 billion in imports. It is one of the most balanced relationships in Brazilian foreign trade, with the two flows just over 11% apart.

Trade is dominated by the automotive and machinery complex in both directions, and Brazilian exports add animal protein: soybeans, poultry meat and frozen beef all rank among the five largest lines. On the import side, data-processing machines lead. Browse the SH4 chapters below to drill into a specific commodity.

In trade with Mexico, Brazil closed January–August 2026 with a surplus of US$ 611.31M.

Brazil sold US$ 5.71B and bought US$ 5.10B, across 841 SH4 headings with data.

Exports BR → Mexico

US$ 5.71B

Imports Mexico → BR

US$ 5.10B

BR trade balance

US$ 611.31M

surplus · 841 headings with data

Top exports Brazil → Mexico


1	1201	Soya beans, whether or not broken	776.79	1,840.981	0.422
2	0207	Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading No 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen	380.39	164.270	2.316
3	8704	Motor vehicles for the transport of goods	367.81	36.731	10.014
4	8703	Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 8702), including station wagons and racing cars	364.09	29.849	12.198
5	0202	Meat of bovine animals, frozen	315.95	52.956	5.966
6	7207	Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel	163.85	301.764	0.543
7	2601	Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites	161.17	1,928.893	0.084
8	0901	Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion	140.44	34.779	4.038
9	4011	New pneumatic tyres, of rubber	138.77	28.083	4.942
10	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	136.23	15.498	8.790
11	8407	Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines	123.79	4.916	25.180
12	8802	Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles	118.54	0.095	1,242.751
13	4407	Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm	107.72	211.196	0.510
14	8409	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408	101.03	22.972	4.398
15	0203	Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen	95.01	41.221	2.305
16	8429	Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers	94.23	10.235	9.207
17	0201	Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled	81.89	12.824	6.385
18	8411	Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines	75.87	0.003	28,480.149
19	4810	Paper and paperboard, coated on one or both sides with kaolin (china clay) or other inorganic substances, with or without a binder, and with no other coating, whether or not surface-coloured, surface-decorated or printed, in rolls or rectangular (includin	65.18	65.406	0.997
20	7601	Unwrought aluminium	53.92	16.575	3.253

Top imports Mexico → Brazil


1	8471	Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included	957.96	1,768.77	541.596
2	8703	Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 8702), including station wagons and racing cars	686.91	48,562.69	14.145
3	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	600.62	41,786.50	14.374
4	8704	Motor vehicles for the transport of goods	273.11	19,376.60	14.095
5	9032	Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus	187.46	2,005.79	93.458
6	8512	Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles	124.15	3,354.77	37.006
7	9018	Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electromedical apparatus and sight-testing instruments	111.25	845.78	131.535
8	8517	Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones	87.74	317.40	276.448
9	8807	Parts of apparatus of heading 88.01, 88.02 or 88.06	86.18	137.10	628.588
10	7901	Unwrought zinc	71.29	19,793.49	3.602
11	8903	Yachts and other vessels for pleasure or sports; rowing boats and canoes	71.28	2,990.84	23.833
12	3206	Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined	70.77	22,845.09	3.098
13	2711	Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons	70.37	150,760.18	0.467
14	8544	Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made-up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with	66.56	2,280.48	29.185
15	8409	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408	62.32	1,930.86	32.276
16	8536	Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceedi	62.19	727.86	85.447
17	8537	Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets and other bases, equipped with two or more apparatus of heading 8535 or 8536, for electric control or the distribution of electricity, including those incorporating instruments or apparatus of Chapter 90, and nume	59.42	552.08	107.636
18	3004	Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings	59.08	1,193.93	49.488
19	9021	Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect	51.42	218.39	235.442
20	8501	Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)	48.61	2,586.69	18.794

Frequently asked questions

How large is the Brazil–Mexico trade balance in January–July 2026?

Brazil holds a US$ 503.4 million surplus: US$ 4.86 billion exported against US$ 4.36 billion imported. The gap equals roughly 5% of total bilateral trade, making this one of Brazil's most symmetric relationships in the period.

What does Brazil export most to Mexico?

Soybeans lead at US$ 680.9 million, followed by poultry meat (US$ 347.2 million), goods vehicles (US$ 304.5 million) and motor cars (US$ 290.4 million). The basket mixes agriculture and automotive, with no single line above 15% of total exports.

What does Brazil import from Mexico?

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